Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 169 Sacrifice Enhancement Analysis: 100,000-Year Soul Ring and Soul Skill

"Just because other soul beasts can't do it doesn't mean we can't," the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass said proudly.

Tang San asked, "If you were to sacrifice yourselves to me, your long lives would be lost. Don't you think that's a pity?"

and also--

Fusion sacrifice.

This was the first time Tang San had ever heard of such a claim.

However, in the original work, the protagonist used both the Fiery Apricot and the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass together to create an invulnerable golden body, which would be quite unique after becoming a soul beast.

Moreover, this Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire is the place where the two great dragon kings of ice and fire fell. These two immortal herbs with the most extreme ice and fire elements may have received the greatest benefit from this Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire.

"We are willing to follow the Valley Master." The Fiery Apricot and the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass said in unison, and before Tang San could refuse, they immediately began their sacrifice.

The two immortal herbs broke off automatically and floated up, approaching each other above the Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire. The red and blue energies began to merge, and the stems of the plants withered and broke, until only a red soul ring remained.

The Eight-Cornered Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot Blossom had already lived for nearly a thousand years before they gained sentience. After Tang San gained sentience and used the Blue Silver Emperor to help them cultivate, their cultivation levels advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching over 50,000 years.

Now, the fusion of their ice and fire powers has actually made the resulting soul ring reach the level of 100,000 years!

Moreover, unlike ordinary soul rings, this 100,000-year soul ring has peculiar runes in deep red and deep blue—these are ice and fire energy patterns formed by the fusion of the Fiery Apricot and the Eight-Cornered Mystic Ice Grass.

"It's a 100,000-year spirit ring!" Xiao Wu exclaimed in disbelief. "Such an outrageous method of sacrifice! A plant spirit beast, how peculiar!"

The 100,000-year-old spirit ring willingly attached itself to Tang San...

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The fluctuations in the soul power of the 100,000-year soul ring also caught Dugu Bo's attention, causing him to come out from a nearby hut.

"Holy crap, a 100,000-year spirit ring?!" Dugu Bo exclaimed in shock, staring in disbelief at the red spirit ring around Tang San's body. Then, upon seeing the energy manifestations of the other immortal herbs, he was dumbfounded: "How come there are so many people here? And they're all children?"

For the past six months, Dugu Bo has been focusing on condensing his soul core—the accumulated poison is too much and requires a lot of time, so he rarely goes out.

Besides, these immortal herbs only condensed energy phantoms in front of Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Guang Ling. Even when Dugu Bo came out, he could only see that the rare and exotic herbs had grown a little more luxuriantly.

Half an hour later, Tang San opened his eyes. The Blue Silver Emperor appeared in his hand, becoming even more crystalline. In addition to the golden veins, there were also red and blue colors flowing around it. The soul rings of one yellow, two purple, one black and one red made Dugu Bo feel like he was dreaming.

A Soul King possesses a 100,000-year Soul Ring?

This guy is really something!

As the Blue Silver Emperor appeared, two streams of light emerged from the bead at its center, one red and one blue, transforming into two adorable little girls, each wearing a red and a blue pair of pockets, with sun and moon patterns on their foreheads, clearly influenced by the radiance of the sun and moon.

"Valley Master!" x2

The two little girls, who could float freely in the air, were sitting on Tang San's shoulders, one on each side, and affectionately calling him Tang San.

"What the hell is this?"

Not only Dugu Bo, but Xiao Wu, a 100,000-year-old soul beast, also felt like she had seen a ghost.

Are there other peculiar types of sacrifices?

Can it appear in a form similar to a martial spirit?

"They sacrificed themselves for me, but because my martial soul, the Blue Silver Emperor, possesses immense vitality, their souls remained intact and can take form. In addition, it may also be related to the physical enhancement techniques I've created over the past six months." Tang San noticed that after completing the Jade Bone Golden Muscle Divine Treasure Technique, his body's rejection of external things reached its peak. Tang San felt that he could reject the Blue Silver Emperor right leg bone without cutting off the leg if he wanted to.

The sacrifice of the Eight-Cornered Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot Blossom, which generated the energy of the Soul Bone, was integrated into the souls of these two under the influence of his Golden Skin and Jade Bones.

This is also why the two are able to manifest the life force of the Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul.

Moreover, Tang San had a premonition that these two were essentially his external brains, capable of helping him control the Blue Silver Emperor and using all of its soul skills.

"However, this form can be considered a preliminary symbiosis between humans and soul beasts. I call them soul spirits. What do you think?" Tang San snatched the naming rights from Huo Yuhao. "Currently, this method can only be achieved by those who have cultivated my self-created body-refining technique. To popularize it, I will need to conduct more research in the future..."

"Very good." Xiao Wu was overjoyed, as this gave her hope for peaceful coexistence between humans and soul beasts—Third Brother was truly a chosen one.

"What a monster," Dugu Bo exclaimed, surveying the medicinal garden. "Leaving this place to me is truly a waste of its resources."

"No need to say that, old poison master. This place is still yours. But when you need to get medicine in the future, you'd better bring some fertilizer with you. Exchange it with them. They know more about the effects than you do." Tang San smiled, then remembered something, took out a seed, and planted it in front of the Qirong Tongtian Chrysanthemum and the Eight-Cornered Xuanbing Grass.

"What did you plant?" Dugu Bo asked curiously.

"My fourth spirit ring was sacrificed to me by a ten-thousand-year-old plant spirit beast. As a reward, I need to find it a fertile place." After Tang San finished speaking, he used the Blue Silver Emperor technique to infuse the Nine Deaths Resurrection Grass with life force, causing it to sprout and grow. He then said to the other plants, "From now on, you must take good care of it."

"Rest assured, Valley Master."

"Since we're all plants, we'll definitely take care of each other."

"I wonder if it's a younger sister or a younger brother?"

"I can't wait!"

Before leaving, Tang San collected many leaves of immortal herbs, intending to take them back for the people of the Heaven Dou Royal Academy to consume.

Although it is just a leaf, it has become a celestial herb for spirit beasts, and its medicinal power is incomparable to that of ordinary celestial herbs. The leaf is enough.

"Let's go, old poisoner, take us out of here," Tang San said.

"I've become a babysitter." Despite saying this, Dugu Bo still took action and led Tang San, Xiao Wu, Guang Ling and others back to Tian Dou City.

"I'll leave you here. You can go on your own. I need to go back and cultivate. My soul core has been fully condensed. I have a feeling that within a year, my soul power will reach level ninety-four, or even level ninety-five." After Dugu Bo finished speaking, his figure disappeared.

In the past six months, Tang San has made great progress. He has become a Soul King, cultivated the Jade Bone Golden Muscle Divine Treasure, and his spiritual power has reached a vast level. He also has a 100,000-year soul ring.

Xiao Wu's strength is also improving rapidly. The jade bones of her limbs and torso have been fully cultivated, and her soul power has reached level 48. Within a year, she will definitely become a Soul King.

Guangling's Jade Bone Technique has already condensed his limbs into jade bones, and his soul power has reached level thirty-nine, just one step away from level forty.

All three have made tremendous progress.

"Third Brother, what abilities did your 100,000-year soul ring bring to you and your martial soul?" Xiao Wu asked curiously on the way back to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy.

"With the support of the Ice and Fire Soul Rings, the most obvious thing is that my soul power has directly reached level 52, and a portion of the energy has strengthened my Jade Bone Golden Muscle Divine Treasure. It can be said that my physical attributes are now equivalent to those of a dragon-type soul beast that is over 50,000 years old."

Tang San explained his situation after obtaining the 100,000-year soul ring.

"And the Martial Soul Blue Silver Emperor possesses both ice and fire elements, and is immune to both of these elements."

"At the same time, the 100,000-year soul ring also gave me two soul skills."

"Firstly, it is based on the fire element, which allows my Blue Silver Emperor to turn fiery red and carry extremely hot fire poison. If it cannot be resisted with soul power, it will inevitably burn to death. I named it: Blazing Yang Poison."

"Secondly, it uses ice as the main element, and its effect is the opposite of the first one. It makes the Blue Silver Grass turn ice blue. If the soul master's soul power cannot resist it, then the extreme ice will explode in his body and freeze him into an ice sculpture. I call it: Mysterious Ice Yin Poison."

"Using either of these two soul skills alone is fatal; even a Title Douluo would find it difficult to endure."

"However, using the two soul skills together can draw upon the power of ice and fire to form a yin-yang balance, helping others strengthen their bodies. Yang poison tempers the bones, while yin poison refines the genitals. I call this the Ice and Fire Refining Body."

"In the future, even if you don't go to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, you two can still use the combined effect of my two 100,000-year soul skills to cultivate the Jade Bone Golden Muscle Divine Treasure Technique."

"As for Huo Wu, Yu Tianheng and others, it can also strengthen their physique and cultivate an indestructible body. If they receive my Ice and Fire Refining Body for many years, they may also have the chance to forge a body that is immune to all poisons."

In short, Tang San's fifth soul skill, taken individually, is a deadly soul skill, but when put together, it becomes an extremely powerful support soul skill, equivalent to a small, self-propelled ice and fire Yin-Yang Well.

This also gave Tang San a hope: life is the foundation, but creation is the true pinnacle that his Blue Silver Emperor aims to reach.

"Third Brother, when it comes to support abilities, no one in the world can compare to you, right?" Xiao Wu felt that if things continued to develop like this, Tang San would definitely become the strongest support-type Soul Master in the world, or even a Title Douluo. At that time, he would be able to bring the dead back to life and heal the wounded, and even perfectly revive her mother.

Tang San neither agreed nor disagreed.

Although he was indeed top-notch in terms of support abilities, he was not the only transmigrator in the Douluo Continent, so he had to be careful to avoid being caught off guard.

"Speaking of which, you two, one is almost level 40 and the other is almost level 50, have you decided which spirit beast spirit rings you want to choose?" Tang San wanted to see what the two of them thought.

"For my fourth soul ring, I plan to get an ice-attribute soul beast." Guangling spoke first, revealing his plan. "The crimson gold aura has strong cutting power, the golden sun aura's light attribute brings extreme shooting speed, and the lightning aura allows my soul skills to split and form a spider web to bind and paralyze enemies."

"However, the three attributes of gold, light, and lightning are not suitable for capturing enemies alive. If I use too much soul power, it may result in death."

This is indeed a problem.

As Guangling's soul power becomes more and more abundant, the metal attribute brought by his first soul skill also becomes stronger and stronger in terms of penetrability and cutting power. If he does not control his soul power, when the competition starts in the future, there is a real possibility that other people will lose limbs or even die.

By adding the ice attribute, Lightfeather's arrows gain good control, effectively preventing the opponent from dying due to excessive condensed soul power.

As his soul power increased, Guangling's path in martial soul cultivation became clear: to control multiple elements and condense arrows of different elements to achieve different effects.

"Ice attribute? Sure, extreme ice can freeze everything. It should be a very good crowd control soul skill. Have you decided which soul beast to choose?"

Tang San first confirmed, then asked about the choice of spirit beast for Guang Ling's fourth spirit ring.

"A ten-thousand-year-old ice silkworm," Guangling said, revealing the name of a soul beast.

"Ice Silkworm? Besides ice attribute, it also has mental attribute... I see, you did this to better control the direction of the spreading ice attribute after the arrow is fired, right?" Tang San immediately guessed Guang Ling's idea. "With insufficient cultivation of the Purple Demon Eye, using a soul ring to enhance mental power is indeed a good choice."

"However, there is one thing you may have overlooked: ten-thousand-year-old ice silkworms are even rarer than hundred-thousand-year-old soul beasts on land."

Ice Silkworm, a soul beast that lives in the far north, has good ice attributes, but almost no attack methods.

Ice silkworms that are hundreds or thousands of years old can only be food for carnivorous soul beasts.

It's quite difficult to find ice silkworms that are over a thousand years old, let alone those that are ten thousand years old.

"How about the Ice Jade Scorpion?" Guangling suggested as an alternative.

"Yes, but I doubt it will give you crowd control skills." Tang San shook his head. "If your spirit is the Ice Jade Scorpion, that would be fine, but your spirit is the Sun Chasing Bow, which is mainly used for archery. It will inherit the sharpness of the barbs on the Ice Jade Scorpion's tail, and its skills will be single-target piercing."

"The Ice Phoenix is ​​more suitable. Not only does it feed on ice crystals and digest ice elements, but its attack method is to spit out a stream of ice crystal energy. When it touches an obstacle, it will explode and form an ice and snow field."

"This kind of spirit beast also has good spiritual power."

"But the most important thing is the ability to digest ice crystals and absorb ice elements."

Guangling exclaimed, "Third Brother is truly amazing; he found a suitable soul beast for me in no time."

"It's just that you've spent too much time researching soul tools... But that's alright, everyone has their own expertise. As for side jobs, I mainly research martial soul cultivation, you mainly research soul tools, and Xiao Wu researches the classification of herbs, medical skills, and writing."

Over the past six months, Xiao Wu has truly entered the field of medicine within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, and has also developed a strong interest in medicine.

The Jade Rabbit pounding medicine?

It's not bad at all.

However, Xiao Wu did not change her warlike and combative personality.

"Xiao Wu, what are your thoughts on the fifth spirit ring?" Tang San asked.

"My first four spirit rings, aside from spirit skills, mainly strengthened my waist, head → brain, spine, and thighs. The fifth spirit ring is mainly to strengthen my arms." Having spent a long time with Tang San and Guang Ling, Xiao Wu has developed a certain logic in choosing spirit rings. "Unlike weapon spirits like Guang Ling, beast spirits like mine need to choose spirit rings that are well-matched. I can't just choose them for spirit skills. Besides, I'm also practicing with short swords, so strengthening my arms is a must."

"Not bad, you're becoming more and more mature." Tang San nodded. "So, what kind of soul beast do you think you should choose?"

Through the three soul skills—Listening to the Wind, True Spirit Bone, and Lightning Flash—Tang San had already determined that Xiao Wu could rely on her 100,000 years of cultivation to condense the soul skill she desired.

As long as it's a rabbit, she should be able to obtain the corresponding essential abilities.

However, it is best to match it with a soft-boned rabbit.

"What do you think of the Fire Claw Rabbit, this kind of spirit beast?" Xiao Wu asked.

"Tell me your reasons," Tang San asked.

"It's very simple. Fireclaw Rabbits are quite fast. After obtaining their spirit rings, my speed can be increased instinctively. Secondly, Fireclaw Rabbits have well-developed forelimbs with five fingers, making them very agile, which is similar to my situation."

Xiao Wu explained her reasons for choosing the Fireclaw Rabbit: "Besides that, it's because it has the fire attribute."

"My third soul ring gave me a lightning-fast soul skill. Although it's a continuous dash kick soul skill, it carries some electric attribute. If my fourth soul skill can give me a fire attribute, I might be able to develop a self-created soul skill like 'Lightning Flash' in the future."

Tang San first affirmed Xiao Wu's idea of ​​choosing a fire-attribute spirit ring to strengthen her arms as her fourth spirit ring, and even creating her own "Lightning Flash" skill. "It is indeed a good idea. The combination of flame and lightning to develop a continuous combo skill is quite feasible. However, the Fire Claw Rabbit is not suitable. The fire attribute of this type of rabbit spirit beast is not strong. It can only produce a little spark. Rather than saying that this kind of spirit beast has a fire attribute, it is more accurate to say that the hardness of its claws is comparable to steel. When they rub against each other, they can produce sparks."

"Then what kind of rabbit should I choose?" The only fire-attribute rabbit Xiao Wu had seen in the Star Dou Great Forest was the Fire Claw Rabbit. She hadn't seen many other fire-attribute soul beasts, since most powerful fire-attribute soul beasts didn't live in the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Flame Rabbit".

"And what kind of rabbit is that?"

"This is a rabbit-like spirit beast that lives in the Devil's Canyon. Unlike other rabbits that burrow in plains and flat land, they live on cliffs, and their forelimbs are far more developed than their hind limbs." Tang San slowly explained the situation of the Flame Rabbit. "You could say that this spirit beast is equivalent to a monkey on a cliff."

"Their two forelimbs have two rings of golden mane on their wrists, which look like two flames when they run on the cliffs."

"Furthermore, when it runs at a certain speed, the two manes will rub against the air and actually burst out with fire-attribute energy. If it is hit by its claws, its flame energy will also explode, and its power is not bad."

According to the "Encyclopedia of Soul Beasts," a ten-thousand-year-old Flame Rabbit can even use the power of the sun to ignite the golden mane on its wrist, making it burn permanently, thus controlling the fire of the sun.

(End of this chapter)